Alice Braga

Alice Braga often portrays women onscreen who are running for their lives yet have the guts, drive and intelligence to overcome dire situations. The Brazilian-born actress captivated audiences as one...
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Actress Alice Braga has one more Hemsworth to complete movie trilogy

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Mar 26, 2015

Brazilian actress Alice Braga is on a mission to star onscreen with all three Hemsworth brothers after working with siblings Luke and Liam in recent films. The Elysium star teamed up with Luke for new movie Kill Me Three Times and worked with Liam on murder mystery By Way of Helena - and now she has Thor star Chris Hemsworth in her sights.
She tells Latino-Review.com, "Chris is the last one on my list. Then I can say I did the whole Hemsworth family!"
Braga admits the Hemsworth boys are a lot of fun: "They're funny. They're super kind. They're nice friends to have. They're really wonderful actors. They're really nice people to be involved with.
"They play along and listen to what you want to bring to the scene. They're very much a like in a sense. Liam is the youngest, though, and he can be more like a boy. Luke is the oldest and he's still a pretty goofy Aussie... They're both goofy!"

Simon Pegg is to play an assassin in a new Australian movie featuring Liam and Chris Hemsworth's brother Luke. Kill Me Three Times will also include Alice Braga, Teresa Palmer and Bryan Brown among the cast.
Principal photography begins this week (ends20Sep13) in and around Perth and the southwest region of Western Australia.
The movie is set in "a sun-drenched Australian surfing town, where a young singer, portrayed by Alice Braga, is the thread that binds three tales of murder, blackmail and revenge".
Pegg's assassin is hired by the wealthy husband of Braga's character, and Aussie movie veteran Brown plays a corrupt local cop. Luke Hemsworth portrays Braga's love interest.

Elysium star Sharlto Copley insists his days as a movie bad guy are numbered because he hates making co-stars feel uncomfortable. The actor hated having to intimidate Alice Braga, as brutal Agent Kruger, in the new sci-fi movie - because he really got into the role and left his co-star terrified.
He tells WENN, "If I hadn't gotten to know her it would've been even harder to intimidate her and make her feel uncomfortable. It still was unpleasant. It was the first time that I had ever done something like that.
"But I was struggling through that... I don't think I'll do a lot of bad guys. I have a real issue with any kind of abuse, verbal or otherwise. It really sets me off.
"There's very few things I'll get aggressive about but that (abuse) happens a lot in South Africa, where I'm from. That really gets me p**sed off. I was very grateful I didn't have to do anything else. If (director) Neill (Blomkamp) said, 'You gotta rape her', I probably would've said, 'No, I can't'."

Neill Blomkamp had a good story in mind when he was brewing up Elysium. Not a particularly new or unique story — the utopia/wasteland dichotomy, the race-to-paradise agenda are themes that have, historically, made themselves quite cozy in science fiction films and literature. But classic doesn't mean overdone. Familiar doesn't necessitate unoriginal. Elysium, from the get-go, had promise. It just doesn't seem to have ever figured out what it wanted to be.
At the forefront of the picture, likely abetted by our preconceived notions of what a Blomkamp movie is destined to be, Elysium has the feel of a District 9. It's gritty, naturalistic, earnest. Los Angeles circa 2154 even looks like South Africa (or at least Hollywood's South Africa). But pretty quickly into the film, things take a turn. A turn for the funny. As Max, star Matt Damon — a hard-working laborer, ex-con, and former foster child who holds strong to his affection for fellow orphan and childhood companion Frey (Alice Braga) — trades rejoinders with violent robot cops, grows hot-headed in arguments with automated civil servants, and laments no shortage of brushes with the criminal underbelly of Earth's future. Now, we're in Total Recall territory. Pulp sci-fi. The fun stuff.
But the evolution does not halt there. As Damon's quest to escape the treacheries of his decaying city and ascend to the promised land in the sky (literally, it's a city on a space station) Elysium, we shift gears once more toward summer blockbuster. Steadily escalating stakes, run-ins with nameless lackeys, that "one last shot" at the big victory, it's all the stuff of the genre's biggest. Everything from Star Wars to Pacific Rim. And when Elysium reaches this plateau, with its central villain — a rogue officer named Kruger (Sharlto Copley) — spouting the usual slew of cliché one liners, we might admittedly long for the naturalism of the film's first act, or the kooky tone of its second. But this chapter is when the excitement sets in: we're still having fun, just for different reasons.
Disjointed no doubt, Elysium does suffer a bit from its identity crisis. Never quite sure how exactly to connect with the picture, we're kept from doing so unabashedly. But again, the victory of this film is its joyfulness — a surprising feat for the director who brought us the bleak-as-all-hell District 9. As a man trying to save his own life, Damon isn't a martyr but an adventurer. L.A. isn't an oppressed wasteland, but a jungle. And Elysium? A tyrannical regime, sure, but a Kubrickian dream. With so much weight so ostensibly inherent in each of the story's facets, we're almost relieved to see how gleefully the movie is willing to play with them. So even when we say goodbye to some of the movie's gravity, its grit, its originality, we welcome in the fun. With open arms.
3.5/5
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Matt Damon bares it all (even his scalp!) in Elysium, but the first clip of Neill Blomkamp's latest film fails to reveal all that much. But we still get something of tremendous value: some laughs.
In the newly released clip from one of the most anticipated movies of the summer, we finally see a bit of the comic relief that accompanies the violent political undertones of the 2154-era film. Damon's lead character, Max DeCosta, is an ex-con who travels to the "Elysium" space station on a mission to save his life as well as bring salvation to the poverty-stricken Earth.
The clip reveals a snarky repartee between Damon's character, a convicted felon, and an inconsiderate and persistent robot ("Would you like a pill?! Stop talking!") dealing with his case. Damon is the only actor seen in the clip, but is he the only star featured in the movie? Negative: the sci-fi thriller also stars Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley, Alice Braga, Diego Luna, William Fichtner, and Wagner Moura.
Max may have a 78.3% chance of regression, but Elysium will 100% arrive in theatres on August 9.
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Welcome to the year 2159, in which two very distinct classes of people exist: The absurdly wealthy, who live on a vast and lush man-made space station called Elysium, and the impoverished and doomed citizens of Earth, who battle it out each and every day for survival. This is Elysium.
After Hollywood.com caught ten glorious never-before-seen minutes of writer and director Neill Blomkamp (District 9)'s next sci-fi action flick on Monday, we picked our jaws up off the sticky theater floor and chatted with Blomkamp about his upcoming cinematic adventure starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster. Here are 10 brand new facts we gleaned from his press Q&amp;A:
1. The Perfect Average Joe: Matt Damon plays Max, a down-on-his-luck Earth citizen who, despite his multiple felonies and arrests, is someone for whom the audience instantly roots. He’s an everyman who uses sarcasm and quick-witted insults as a way to alleviate the stress of living in poverty and filth. The 10 minutes of footage gave us a glimpse of a potential love interest for Max in Fray (Alice Braga), a former friend who has achieved her dreams of becoming a nurse — but keep in mind that romance takes a back seat to action, thrills, and kills in this dystopian flick.
2. Miraculous Recoveries: Elysium is a truly breathtaking sight to see — imagine the world of Halo but with plenty of crystal clear swimming pools and gorgeous model-esque citizens. In one scene, a perfect 10 of a woman emerges from her swimming pool and lays in what appears to be a tanning bed. However, in a jaw-dropping twist, the sleek machine is actually scanning her body for cancer and subsequently removing any toxins from her body. Blomkamp says, "Elysium is a slight mirror of how the West is now with immigration. A lot of people want to help out the rest of the world and they want to take that wealth and pour the glass on half of them and kind of balance them with the rest of the planet, and the other people want to put up walls and close the borders and so the people that run Elysium fit into those two caps."
3. Ready, Set, Go! Fans will not get a full explanation as to what happened to Earth or how Elysium came to be. Blomkamp reveals he enjoys shocking audiences with abrupt beginnings in his films, saying, “I like films that just put you there and you just have to deal with it. There as an even more aggressive version of the film where the intro was almost non-existent — the film just starts. I shot some footage that explained the intro a little more but I decided to not use it."
4. Here and There: The settings for the film are split between the two worlds: The impoverished Earth — captured on film in the outskirts of Mexico City, Mexico — and the pristine Elysium, shot throughout various parts of Canada. Blomkamp says there is a clear distinction between the two worlds in the film. "Definitely the majority of the film takes place on Earth, but it’s probably two thirds Earth and one third Elysium," he says. "The whole aspiration of the protagonist is to get there so we wanted to sort of save that for the end."
5. Life or Death Desperation: Max is desperate to reach Elysium after a fatal accident at work plagues his immune system. In one of the film’s most adrenaline-pumping moments, Max is accidently locked inside a toxic metal chamber and exposed to unknown poisons. However, rather than receiving superpowers like most sci-fi flicks love to portray, Max is doomed incurable as a work droid tosses him a bottle of pills and matter-of-factly reveals, "You have five days to live, thank you for your service." The only place that can surely cure Max of this lethal turn of events is Elysium.
6. The Next Iron Man? In order to help save his life and fulfill his quest to get to Elysium, Max agrees to undergo experimental surgery to have a strength apparatus fused into his body. "The idea was it was some very low-end kind of a dirt bike or like a motocross version of a strength suit that was born out of research that the military is doing now," Blomkamp explains. Max’s Kawasaki suit gives our protagonist immense power, but Blomkamp says it is not to be confused with another type of cinematic body armor. "He’s sick in the film so it kind of makes him stronger, but it doesn’t make him Iron Man strong. I’m trying to do it semi-realistically,” he says.
7. District 9 Roll Call: Blomkamp’s District 9 prodigy Sharlto Copley takes on an incredibly unique character named Kruger, an Elysium soldier who is sent to live on Earth and protect the elite citizens from the war-prone miscreants that wander the world. Whether or not we can classify Kruger as an enemy or ally is still to be determined, but we do know Kruger will get a similar badass strength suit in the film. Blomkamp reveals, “[Kruger] has one later on in the film that is a bit more advanced then the one [Max] in the film has. It’s a little bit more complex and a little bit newer, but they’re born out of the same idea.”
8. Futuristic Yet Familiar: Blomkamp wanted Elysium to appear futuristic but still maintain ties to the world we live in today. For example, the highly advanced citizens of Elysium still write on paper, even though in the year 2159 the need for paper would be completely unnecessary. "My approach is always start off with something ridiculous and then try to use the most realistic portrayal of the ridiculous as you can," Blomkamp says. “It’s kind of like I’m painting ridiculous ideas with the brush of reality."
9. More Money, More Power: There is no lottery or selection process for a citizen of Earth to move up into the privileged world of Elysium — it’s all based off one important thing: Money. Blomkamp explains, “You just buy citizenship so, I mean, if you have the money you can. That was a part of the stuff that we shot [for the intro] that we didn’t use. You can get citizenship for like a billion dollars, so it’s a pretty self-selecting for who goes up.”
10. Penny For Your Thoughts: William Fichtner’s character, Carlyle, is an extremely important asset in Max’s quest to secure a spot amongst the Elysium elite. Blomkamp says, “He’s basically just a billionaire who’s uninterested in the sort of small people that get in the way of him making a profit and ... he acts with almost no emotion.” Max and his gang of badass miscreants set out to rob Carlyle of something extremely important: his thoughts. After a heart-pounding whirlwind of a scene, Max downloads the man’s thoughts into his own brain and quickly discovers a code that reveals something that can bridge the gap between the two worlds. Unfortunately for Max, the powerful will stop at nothing to steal this information back — even if it means they need to kill everyone in his path.
Elysium hits theaters Friday August 9, 2013.
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Is On the Road the first successful attempt to bring Jack Kerouac's beloved novel to the screen? Depends on who you ask. Fans of the Beat Generation will undoubtedly love this film directed by Walter Salles and adapted by Jose Rivera and those familiar with Kerouac's mythos might be able to play along. But if you've never heard of this group of writers and miscreants you might be eating their dust.
On the Road is occasionally beautiful and entirely too long. Its narrator Sal Paradise Kerouac's alter ego is played by Sam Riley with a sort of muted watchfulness; he's an outsider the writer narrating it all along for the ride but the script doesn't do justice to the tastes of Kerouac's writing (although we get a taste in some small voiceovers). Garrett Hedlund owns this movie from top to bottom as Dean Moriarty with his buoyant earthy sexuality and total irresponsibility. In reality Dean is the sort of user and mooch that would be a total drain of energy and resources but we see him as Sal does: alive free sensual somehow utterly honest in his protestations of love and honesty despite his constant betrayals.
Dean is absolutely the sex and love object of the movie his pansexual groove attracting and scaring Sal and in a way breaking his heart. Dean also breaks the hearts of Marylou his on-again off-again child bride played by Kristen Stewart; Camille the mother of his children played by Kirsten Dunst; and most movingly Carlo Marx the alter ego of Allen Ginsberg who is played by Tom Sturridge. Sturridge is excellent as the lovelorn poet who's alternately suicidal and joyous and his scenes with Hedlund are some of the most erotic and moving. The female characters get short shrift especially Marylou who lacks much of a personality; how much of what she does is egged on by Dean and how much is of her own volition? The ballyhoo over her nude scenes were overblown by half; although they're somewhat sexy they're overshadowed by all of the sexual tension between the leads.
Two of the most interesting characters in On the Road are Old Bull Lee and his wife Jane. Bull is the alter ego of William S. Burroughs and Jane is Joan Vollmer Burroughs's common-law wife and the mother of his children. (Vollmer a writer in her own right was accidentally killed by Burroughs.) Jane played by Amy Adams is bizarre and fascinating a wild-haired lady and drug addict and mother of Bull's children but not much more than that. One could watch an entire movie of Viggo Mortensen playing Bull a sharp-dressed heroin addict who nods off with his child in his arms and strips off his clothes to get in an orgone accumulator he built in his backyard. The movie barely makes a pit stop at their crumbling Louisiana farm and their importance in Sal's life and the Beat generation is never quite explained.
One might argue that the loopy timeline of the film mimics the unending road trip of Dean's life but it doesn't serve the final product. Incorporating more of Kerouac's writing as voice-overs or something similar would have given it more life the kind of vivacity Kerouac sought out in spades which is why he tolerated Dean's vagaries for so long. More than most movies it feels like On the Road could have gone in any direction expanding or reducing characters shortening the trips to concentrate on the characters more emphasizing the effects of their missing fathers or not and it's this wishy-washiness that undermines the movie. It feels much longer than it is. It's a loving tribute to its subjects and a movie that acts as a showcase for rising stars Hedlund and Riley but it fizzles when it should burn.

With a name like Cannes, it's got to be artsy! And the artsiest of film fests is the perfect place to let loose with the upcoming film adaptation of Beat Generation kingpin Jack Kerouac's famed novel On the Road. Posters for Walter Salles' flick have been hitting the Internet for some time now, with the most recent depicting the cast's rising star, Kristen Stewart.
The Twilight heroine plays Marylou, one victim of the flighty lifestyle of Dean Moriarty (Garrett Hedlund). Due to the promotional focus dedicated to Stewart, fans of the book might assume that Marylou's character will play a larger part in the film. Also featured in individual posters below are Sam Riley — as the book's hero Sal — as well as Kirsten Dunst, Amy Adams, Elisabeth Moss, Tom Sturridge, Alice Braga, and Viggo Mortensen.
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So we're still not really sure what this whole Elysium movie from District 9 writer/director Neill Blomkamp is about -- other than it's set "100 years in the future" and there's some aliens involved -- but dammit, we are excited. Already featuring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster, the cast just added Alice Braga, effectively rounding out the badass-ness of the film with some more badass-ness. The picture begins shooting this summer in Vancouver and Mexico with a 2013 release date and, well, we just don't really have any other details to offer you so, um, just go watch District 9 again and remember how awesome it is.
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The supernatural thriller The Rite is a different kind of literary adaptation a film not “based on” or even “inspired by” a written work but rather “suggested by” one. The degree to which this fictional film adheres factually to its source material Matt Baglio’s book The Rite: The Making of an American Exorcist is anybody’s guess. Fans of The Exorcist might argue that it’s more strongly “suggested by” William Friedkin’s 1973 horror classic than anything else.
Erstwhile unknown Colin O’Donoghue in his first feature role plays Michael a seminary student sent to Rome to learn the intricacies of demonic possession. A pronounced skeptic who isn’t even sure he believes in god much less the Catholic doctrine of exorcism Michael is inclined toward the more humanistic view of the “possessed” as simply disturbed or schizophrenic individuals. What they really need he insists is not a priest but a good psychiatrist. (That belief certainly won't endear him to the Church of Scientology.)
To rid him of such malignant pragmatism Michael’s headmaster (Ciaran Hinds) ships him off to serve an apprenticeship under Father Lucas (Anthony Hopkins) a Welsh Jesuit (shorthand for “eccentric”) and practicing exorcist. Having been around the theological block a few times Lucas reacts to Michael’s unbelief with wry nonchalance (a Hopkins specialty and the film’s most appealing trait); he knows that Satan’s arguments will prove far more convincing than any he might offer.
And Satan gets to work forthwith first using a pregnant Italian girl as his vessel then incorporating other representatives of the animal kingdom tormenting Michael with horned frogs and red-eyed demon mules. At first exhibiting admirable restraint director Mikael Hafstrom eventually employs just about every weapon in his terror arsenal bombarding Michael with harrowing visions and flashbacks (he grew up in a funeral home with an undertaker father played by Rutger Hauer who had a habit of bringing his work home with him) which offer ample opportunities for cheap scares. His trump card of course is Hopkins whose character eventually becomes possessed himself thus allowing The Rite to fulfill the Lucas/Lucifer conceit we all knew was coming.
The Rite varies wildly in tone with Hafstrom seemingly unable to decide if his film is to be a moody serious-minded psychological thriller or some campy outlandish horror-comedy. By the time Father Lucas becomes possessed and the reenactment of the first great celestial battle begins the film gives itself wholly over to the latter. As channeled by Hopkins the devil comes off as a less eloquent more vulgar version of Hannibal Lecter taunting Michael with naughty words and voraciously devouring scenery. The Dark Lord as a dirty old man is something of a novel concept I suppose. Scary? Maybe a little. Creepy? Oh hell yes.

Cast in popular Brazilian television program "Carandiru, Outras Histórias"

Appeared in David Mamet film "Redbelt" alongside Chiwetel Ejiofor

Starred as Isabelle, a Brazilian black ops sniper in Robert Rodriguez produced sequel "Predators"

Co-starred with Jude Law and Forest Whitaker in sci-fi film "Repo Men"

Made English-language film debut in "Journey to the End of Night"

Appeared in the sci-fi/action film "Elysium"

Summary

Alice Braga often portrays women onscreen who are running for their lives yet have the guts, drive and intelligence to overcome dire situations. The Brazilian-born actress captivated audiences as one of the last human beings left on Earth - along with Will Smith - in the post-apocalyptic thriller "I Am Legend" (2007). Braga's acting résumé also included provocative independent dramas, but her charisma and ability to play survivors worked best in the science fiction genre. She costarred with Jude Law in the action thriller "Repo Men" (2010) and filled Arnold Schwarzenegger's combat boots in "Predators" (2010), a reboot of the box-office hit "Predator" (1987), and a film that established Braga as one of the most sought-after action stars - male or female - of her time.